465 research outputs found
Towards a Precise Parton Luminosity Determination at the CERN LHC
A new approach to determine the LHC luminosity is investigated. Instead of
employing the proton-proton luminosity measurement, we suggest to measure
directly the parton-parton luminosity. It is shown that the electron and muon
pseudorapidity distributions, originating from the decay of W+, W- and Z0
bosons produced at 14 TeV pp collisions (LHC), constrain the x distributions of
sea and valence quarks and antiquarks in the range from about 3 x 10**-4 to
about 10**-1 at a Q**2 of about 10**4 GeV**2. Furthermore, it is demonstrated
that, once the quark and antiquark structure functions are constrained from the
W+,W- and Z0 production dynamics, other quark-antiquark related scattering
processes at the LHC like q-qbar --> W+W- can be predicted accurately. Thus,
the lepton pseudorapidity distributions provide the key to a precise parton
luminosity monitor at the LHC, with accuracies of about +-1% compared to the so
far considered goal of +-5%.Comment: plain tex, 14 pages, 5 figure
Tagging Two-Photon Production at the LHC
Tagging two-photon production offers a significant extension of the LHC
physics programme. Effective luminosity of high-energy gamma-gamma collisions
reaches 1% of the proton-proton luminosity and the standard detector techniques
used for measuring very forward proton scattering should allow for a reliable
extraction of interesting two-photon interactions. Particularly exciting is a
possibility of detecting two-photon exclusive Higgs boson production at the
LHC.Comment: 9 pages and 4 figure
Results of the Baikal experiment on observations of macroscopic nonlocal correlations in reverse time
Although the general theory macroscopic quantum entanglement of is still in
its infancy, consideration of the matter in the framework of action-at-a
distance electrodynamics predicts for the random dissipative processes
observability of the advanced nonlocal correlations. These correlations were
really revealed in our previous experiments with some large-scale
heliogeophysical processes as the source ones and the lab detectors as the
probe ones. Recently a new experiment has been performing on the base of Baikal
Deep Water Neutrino Observatory. The thick water layer is an excellent shield
against any local impacts on the detectors. The first annual series 2012/2013
has demonstrated that detector signals respond to the heliogeophysical
processes and causal connection of the signals directed downwards: from the
Earth surface to the Baikal floor. But this nonlocal connection proved to be in
reverse time. In addition advanced nonlocal correlation of the detector signal
with the regional source-process: the random component of hydrological activity
in the upper layer was revealed and the possibility of its forecast on nonlocal
correlations was demonstrated. But the strongest macroscopic nonlocal
correlations are observed at extremely low frequencies, that is at periods of
several months. Therefore the above results should be verified in a longer
experiment. We verify them by data of the second annual series 2013/2014 of the
Baikal experiment. All the results have been confirmed, although some
quantitative parameters of correlations and time reversal causal links turned
out different due to nonstationarity of the source-processes. A new result is
displaying of the advanced response of nonlocal correlation detector to the
earthquake. This opens up the prospect of the earthquake forecast on the new
physical principle, although further confirmation in the next events is
certainly needed.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Photon-Photon Luminosities in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC Energies
Effective photon-photon luminosities are calculated for various realistic
hadron collider scenarios. The main characteristics of photon-photon processes
at relativistic heavy-ion colliders are established and compared to the
corresponding photon-photon luminosities at electron-positron and future Photon
Linear Colliders (PLC). Higher order corrections as well as inelastic processes
are discussed. It is concluded that feasible high luminosity Ca-Ca collisions
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are an interesting option for photon-photon
physics up to about 100 GeV photon-photon CM energy.Comment: REVTeX, 13 pages, 10 figures (uuencoded,compressed postscript
Radio measurements of the energy and the depth of the shower maximum of cosmic-ray air showers by Tunka-Rex
We reconstructed the energy and the position of the shower maximum of air
showers with energies PeV applying a method using radio
measurements performed with Tunka-Rex. An event-to-event comparison to
air-Cherenkov measurements of the same air showers with the Tunka-133
photomultiplier array confirms that the radio reconstruction works reliably.
The Tunka-Rex reconstruction methods and absolute scales have been tuned on
CoREAS simulations and yield energy and values consistent
with the Tunka-133 measurements. The results of two independent measurement
seasons agree within statistical uncertainties, which gives additional
confidence in the radio reconstruction. The energy precision of Tunka-Rex is
comparable to the Tunka-133 precision of , and exhibits a
uncertainty on the absolute scale dominated by the amplitude calibration of the
antennas. For , this is the first direct experimental
correlation of radio measurements with a different, established method. At the
moment, the resolution of Tunka-Rex is approximately g/cm. This resolution can probably be improved by deploying additional
antennas and by further development of the reconstruction methods, since the
present analysis does not yet reveal any principle limitations.Comment: accepted for publication by JCA
Tunka-Rex: the Cost-Effective Radio Extension of the Tunka Air-Shower Observatory
Tunka-Rex is the radio extension of the Tunka cosmic-ray observatory in
Siberia close to Lake Baikal. Since October 2012 Tunka-Rex measures the radio
signal of air-showers in coincidence with the non-imaging air-Cherenkov array
Tunka-133. Furthermore, this year additional antennas will go into operation
triggered by the new scintillator array Tunka-Grande measuring the secondary
electrons and muons of air showers. Tunka-Rex is a demonstrator for how
economic an antenna array can be without losing significant performance: we
have decided for simple and robust SALLA antennas, and we share the existing
DAQ running in slave mode with the PMT detectors and the scintillators,
respectively. This means that Tunka-Rex is triggered externally, and does not
need its own infrastructure and DAQ for hybrid measurements. By this, the
performance and the added value of the supplementary radio measurements can be
studied, in particular, the precision for the reconstructed energy and the
shower maximum in the energy range of approximately eV. Here
we show first results on the energy reconstruction indicating that radio
measurements can compete with air-Cherenkov measurements in precision.
Moreover, we discuss future plans for Tunka-Rex.Comment: Proceeding of UHECR 2014, Springdale, Utah, USA, accepted by JPS
Conference Proceeding
The Tunka Experiment: Towards a 1-km^2 Cherenkov EAS Array in the Tunka Valley
The project of an EAS Cherenkov array in the Tunka valley/Siberia with an
area of about 1 km^2 is presented. The new array will have a ten times bigger
area than the existing Tunka-25 array and will permit a detailed study of the
cosmic ray energy spectrum and the mass composition in the energy range from
10^15 to 10^18 eV.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in IJMP
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